Garden Ge. 2014

Qin Yufen built Garden Ge. from layers of colour that feel both grounded and dreamlike. I imagine the artist in her studio, brush in hand, coaxing these hues into being. There’s a real push and pull here, warm yellows fighting for space with cooler blues and greens. Look at how the brushstrokes overlap, creating these transparent veils of colour. It makes me think about how a garden itself is never static but always in flux, changing with the seasons. Maybe Qin Yufen was trying to capture that fleeting quality, the way light filters through leaves, the unexpected combinations of colour that nature throws our way. There's a rhythm in the layering, almost like a dance. Qin Yufen belongs to a lineage of painters like Helen Frankenthaler, who let the paint soak into the canvas, creating these luminous fields of colour. This piece reminds us that painting is an ongoing conversation, a way of seeing and feeling the world around us.